The comprehensive history of England, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt, by C. MacFarlane and T. Thomson, Volume 2 |
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... subjects , as well as of the respect of foreign nations , to the last . His position and the circumstances of the time must have always given him an importance abroad , and made his movements be watched with con- siderable anxiety ...
... subjects , as well as of the respect of foreign nations , to the last . His position and the circumstances of the time must have always given him an importance abroad , and made his movements be watched with con- siderable anxiety ...
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... subjects ; made in the first year of his Majesty's most prosperous reign , and set out by way of Diary . By W. Patten , Londoner . " This narrative , which was first published at London in 1548 , was reprinted in ( Dalyell's ) Fragments ...
... subjects ; made in the first year of his Majesty's most prosperous reign , and set out by way of Diary . By W. Patten , Londoner . " This narrative , which was first published at London in 1548 , was reprinted in ( Dalyell's ) Fragments ...
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... subjects , was the next day found concealed in a barn , and forthwith brought to Norwich . The executions were not numerous ; nine of the ringleaders were hanged upon the nine branches of the " Oak of Reformation ; " a few others were ...
... subjects , was the next day found concealed in a barn , and forthwith brought to Norwich . The executions were not numerous ; nine of the ringleaders were hanged upon the nine branches of the " Oak of Reformation ; " a few others were ...
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... subjects ' affections and interests to a misplaced and discreditable attach- ment ; and that the words with which ... subject . carries most of his arguments too far , relying occasionally on the most doubtful kind of evidence , giving ...
... subjects ' affections and interests to a misplaced and discreditable attach- ment ; and that the words with which ... subject . carries most of his arguments too far , relying occasionally on the most doubtful kind of evidence , giving ...
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... subjects to her amusements - Knox's republicanism - Poverty of the Scottish Reformed clergy - Knox's rem onstrances on the subject - Increase of Elizabeth's resources - Her jealousy of rivals - She allies herself with the Protestants of ...
... subjects to her amusements - Knox's republicanism - Poverty of the Scottish Reformed clergy - Knox's rem onstrances on the subject - Increase of Elizabeth's resources - Her jealousy of rivals - She allies herself with the Protestants of ...
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Page 178 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Page 388 - Nevertheless, against the tenor of the said statutes, and other the good laws and statutes of your realm to that end provided...
Page 474 - Certainly," says Whitlocke,** with his usual candor, "never any man acted such a part, on such a theatre, with more wisdom, constancy, and eloquence, with greater reason, judgment, and temper, and with a better grace in all his words and actions, than did this great and excellent person; and he moved the hearts of all his auditors, some few excepted, to remorse and pity.
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Page 389 - The King willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm; and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions, contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself as well obliged as of his prerogative.
Page 276 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves...
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Page 250 - A coach was a strange monster in those days, and the sight of one put both horse and man into amazement. Some said it was a great crabshell brought out of China, and some imagined it to be one of the pagan temples, in which the cannibals adored the divell.
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